Growing numbers
Ever since I have started playing for the Birds a little more than three years ago, the number of players has slowly but steadily grown. Andy Kendall has now taken over head coach responsibilities with Michele as our assistant coach.
Sadly, we are still not enough players to join the 15’s league just yet, but we still play the super 7’s league and friendly tournaments and games. However, a number of our players had the opportunity to play in the 15's league with the Lucerne team. After this past year all of us can be proud of our improvements. It is not always easy with a lot of new players regularly joining us, and experienced players sadly leaving the team for various reasons, but despite these difficulties, we have grown as a team: the Birds are not only a team on the pitch, we are also a group of good friends.
Now that we have worked on our basic rugby skills this past year, this coming season gives us the opportunity to keep working on playing as a team and getting more variation in our game. I am sure that we will become more and more of a tough opponent for the “big teams”, even though, with an average age of around 21, we are most likely the youngest Swiss women’s team. I am looking forward to this coming season and I couldn’t be prouder to be captain of the Basel Birds!